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Thursday, April 2, 2009

Cutting a Shaped Card with Your Nesties

I have a lot of readers email me asking how to use your Nestabilities in the Cuttlebug to cut shaped cards. While I didn't have much time to really finish the card he way I would have liked, but I didn't want to wait any longer to share it, so here's the post!

Start with your A plate, then add the B plate. Now put your folded cardstock on top. Place your die cutting side down on top of the folded card, overlapping the folded end just lightly. Edited to add: cutting side is the side with a rim in the middle sticking out, if you click on he pic for a closeup you see the side facing up is flat, this won't cut into paper) Place your C plate on top and roll it through. (Remember, C is for "cut")

And there it is! Any guesses what I'm going to make?? (if you said "toilet seat", that's a good guess, but I don't have the "Way to Go!"set... yet!)

Then I took the same die and cut through a piece of DP (DCWV spring stack) using the same sandwich as before: A, B, paper, die cutting side down, C, but this time I didn't overlap it because I want to use the whole oval.

Then you adhere this to the card, lining it up, and now you don't have that "flat top"! To finish it fast I grabbed this wide ribbon and stamped "Happy Easter" in Black Staz On (so the ink wouldn't blur on the grosgrain) from theGina K "Easter Blesssings" set and added a white paper flower from the Floral Frenzy kit (these paper flowers will be available for purchase in our release at the end of the month!) I didn't really pull the ribbon through the flower, just glued a knotted piece on top.

I couldn't get the colors adjusted properly, it is not really that pink! LOL! These could be mass produced pretty quickly for the holidays (and jazzed up to make them more "wow!" than this!) I hope this helps anyone who has been struggling with how to make the dies work this way for you! I love to use my circle and square classic and scalloped Nestabilities to make shaped cards too, you will find numerous samples of them on my blog.

Have a great day! Easter is almost here. :)

PS If you've been missing the tutorials here lately, me too! I have several I need to write up, but editing all the pics and writing them up take more time than I have right now, hang in there, I have several coming up I think you will really enjoy! :)

18 comments:

Adorable Mel.. thanks for the tutorial.. I tried this once with the pure luxury - guess I didn't run it through enough times. I'll try again. I'm in Germany so I'm in stamp withdrawal but loving seeing my daughter so it's ok. When she's at work I can at least do a little blog hopping before I explore the town.

Very cute card, Melanie! Thanks for the tutorial on how you did it! What a great idea to add the full oval of DP to cover the flat part at the fold! I'm going to try that next time I make a shaped card!

Lovely card Mel, I tried it out today with my oval nesties but I cannot get the card to stand on its own, it keeps rolling over! How did you get yours to stand, would be interested to hear if anyone else has the same problem.

Melanie, just wanted you to know that we are patient and know you are one very busy gal, so just know we will enjoy the tutorials when you get them posted. Thanks so much for showing us the shaped egg card! We do love you and your creations.

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I am a stamp illustrator, author and Senior Design Team Member for Gina K Designs and a WAHM of two terrific boys. I've been stamping and creating cards and other papercrafts for 14 years, and was one of the Splitcoast Original Dirty Dozen Team (melmel). My first book of stamping tutorials came out in January 2012 and the second in May 2013. God has blessed me beyond measure with opportunities to use my gifts and a loving husband who supports my work and art. I pray you find inspiration in the creations and stories I post here!